AMEBIASIS

Feigin and Cherry's Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Sixth Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2841-2849

  Hamano, Shinjiro ^a   Petri, William A ^b,c,d  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Department of Medicine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

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